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...Jefferson Davis made many mistakes, Von Abele explains, but his intense, opinionated, neurotic little Vice President made still greater ones. Whatever Stephens' achievements before the Civil War or after, "there can be no palliation of his role in the collapse of the Confederacy. ... He comforted deserters and disloyal men. His incessant criticism embarrassed the government; his personal quarrels with Davis weakened [its] unity...
Biggest buyer was a 43-year-old contractor named Martin Wunderlich, of Jefferson City, Mo. In the largest single surplus sale to an individual, he acquired (for $2,780,000) a whole plainful of Flying Fortresses and other big planes (see cut), 5,540 in all. Like the other buyers he must scrap them...
Something Ladylike. Pauline Betz has had a tennis racket in her hands almost every day ever since she was nine. Her mother, a gym teacher at Los Angeles' Jefferson High School, put it there. Pauline is convinced that her mother set her playing tennis "to get me off the streets and doing something more ladylike." She was a tree-climbing tomboy. Every night when her father came home, Pauline and her younger brother greeted him by walking down the street on their hands. Papa complained once: "I wish I could see those children right side up once...
Last week 46-year-old Ed Stettinius returned to the University of Virginia-as its 26th rector, a post whose first occupant was Founder Thomas Jefferson (1819-26). Virginia had long since rewarded its No. 1 alumnus by giving him an honorary Phi Beta Kappa key. The University of California added an honorary LL.D...
...character begins to slow the plot, Author Jennings shoots him or gives him a fatal tumble from the to'gallants. Wandering around in the background-as though to remind the reader that life in those days was more than just tosspots and sea-chanteys-are Sammy Adams, Tommy Jefferson and old General Washington...